President Barack Obama gets no respect. Even as Republicans vow to repeal Obamas sweeping health care law leading up to the crucial mid-term elections in November, one Republican candidate, Paul LePage, says if hes elected governor of Maine, he plans to tell Obama Go to hell.

LePage, who is backed by the conservative tea party movement, spoke at a Republican forum last week while stumping for votes.

And as your governor, LePage told the crowd, you're gonna be seeing a lot of me on the front page saying Gov. LePage tells Obama to go to hell.

Why was that kind of profanity necessary? Who knows? Its tough talk from LePage, a Republican hothead who not only disrespects Obama with his hateful comments, but he also disrespects the Office of the President.

Because Obama is Americas first black president, there is a question about whether LePage lashed out about Obama, in part, because hes black. Would LePage have told a white president, who was a Democrat, to go to hell?

Whats clear is this: There will always be ideological differences between Democrats and Republicans but the tea partys criticism of Obamas policies usually turn ugly.

"If this is his attitude towards the president of the United States, I can't imagine what he would say when a local legislator or constituent disagrees with him," Arden Manning, who heads the Democrats' Victory 2010 campaign, said in a statement.

LePage, like many other Republicans, is critical of Obamas economic recovery efforts and reminds the administration that the nations unemployment rate is stuck at 9.5 percent.

On Monday, Obama tried to counter the GOPs assault and announced an initiative called Skills for Americas Future, a new, industry-led plan to substantially improve industry partnerships with community colleges and build a nationwide network to create jobs.

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."

WAH WAH WAH! Funny how when it is their guy on the receiving end of the insults it is supposedly disrespectful. These people are just getting what they had coming after doing the same thing to W for 8 years.

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posted on 10/09/2010 12:02:17 PM PDT
by pnh102
(Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)

After the way the Democrats treated that man (and, frankly, anyone who had an R after their names) for eight years, they have no right to complain about anything anyone says about Barry “Rodney Dangerfield” Obama.

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posted on 10/09/2010 12:05:48 PM PDT
by WinOne4TheGipper
(Truman: The buck stops here. Obama: Buck? What buck? Did I tell you how it's all Bush's fault?)

We respected Johnson, only to watch Hillary and her gang of thugs destroy Nixon. We respected Carter only to watch them mock and ridicule Reagan for 8 years. We respected Clinton only to watch him get blow jobs from 18 year old interns and hear of rape accusations all day long, and Ken Starr was the bad guy. Then we watched George Soros lead the Communists to destroy Bush for 8 years and then finally the American economy and install this communist asshole in office. Respect? Obama is the ENEMY of the American Constitution.

***”To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” ***

As long as the kenyan disrespects the office, and America, I have none, zero, nada, zilch, no respect for him at all. He as humiliated and embarassed the land that I love and served and he gets NO pass from me whatsoever.

obama is a enemy of the state, we just haven't found anyone with enough power and balls to say it yet.

FUBO

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posted on 10/09/2010 12:18:45 PM PDT
by FrankR
(You are only obligated to obama to the extent you accept his handouts.)

"Why was that kind of profanity necessary? Who knows? Its tough talk from LePage, a Republican hothead who not only disrespects Obama with his hateful comments, but he also disrespects the Office of the President."

But disrespecting a Republican President is not disrespecting the Office of the President?

Because Obama is Americas first black president, there is a question about whether LePage lashed out about Obama, in part, because hes black.

Obama is 'black'? I didn't know that. That never appeared in the context of any of the candidates comments.

Would LePage have told a white president, who was a Democrat, to go to hell?

Not just LePage, but a whole lot of people told Bill Clinton to go to hell. Conversely, a lot of people told President Bush to go to hell, and many of them are in the MSM and Democratic Party Leadership. Reid, Pelosi, Frank.

Whats clear is this: There will always be ideological differences between Democrats and Republicans but the tea partys criticism of Obamas policies usually turn ugly.

That's because the policies are ugly. We only attack bad policy. We criticize the President for his choice of bad policy. We'd support him if he chose something that made sense.

When Bill Clinton was a coward and got his wife to push govt healthcare down out throats, we told both of them to go to hell. Politicians don’t deserve respect when they forget who they are working for.

No office, and no person can "demand" respect - genuine respect must be earned. That a**-clown hussein obama has done absolutely nothing to earn even a shred of respect. In fact, he's done quite a few contemptible and detestable things. When he said "...they treat me like a dog..." that was another lie. I like my dog and care about her and give her a heck of a lot more respect than hussein will ever be able to earn. If he wants to start earning even a little respect he's got to stop lying, manipulating, acting anti-American and un-American, renounce socialism and start moving out on a limited government Constitution supporting agenda. In other words, he basically has to become the anti-obama. Never happen, hence, he'll never earn any respect, period.

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